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onlyhope93 · 8 months

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He's not as bad as he seemed to be - Chapter 5 - here we go

Jiang Cheng left the conference hall at a brisk pace, nodding courteously to several sect leaders who seemed to want to gain his attention, but didn’t stop to speak with any of them. He was much too agitated, still disbelieving what he just did. He might have either doomed the Jiang sect or saved it. Opposing Jin Guangshan in such a public setting is never a safe move, especially with possible marriage alliance brewing slowly between a-jie and the Peacock. They started corresponding lately through Madam Jin, but he was suspecting Jin Zixuan was finally opening his eyes to how wonderful and precious his sister really is.

He decided that blowing off some steam at the training grounds would be a good idea. He had to get rid of the pent-up energy. Jiang Cheng hated those conferences with a passion. He was one for action not sitting down and politicking. Give him a good night hunt, disciple training, even solo training for that matter would be much more preferable to this drag.

I wonder where Wei Wuxian disappeared to , thought Jiang Cheng, heading towards old Lan training grounds. Knowing him, he’s probably keeping to the little used routes to avoid the judging eyes of the crowd. With my luck he’ll be somewhere around the training grounds, wreaking havoc and disturbing Lan juniors. Or maybe not.

Training grounds were at the edge of the settlement, far away enough that any training session including clashing swords wouldn’t disturb the serenity of the place and give the residents relative peace. Last time Jaing Cheng was there, he was still a student at Cloud Recesses. Although a quick tour of the completed and still ongoing renovations he was provided after his arrival confirmed their placement in the same spot, he didn’t really pay attention to the state of them.

Taking a longer, more twisted route to find his wayward brother, Jiang Cheng found himself at the back of the healing pavilion. Suddenly, an ominous feeling descended upon him, goose bumps rising on his arms and the nape of his neck. He heard the voices coming from one of the windows. People were clearly arguing, if you can call it an argument, considering he was currently at the Cloud Recesses. What caught his attention though was that one of the voices belonged to Wei Wuxian.

What did he get himself into now , Jiang Cheng thought resigned. Deciding to find out what was going on before he storms in, he sneaked closer to the window, taking a peek of who exactly was in the room. He nearly sold himself out, his eyes close to falling out of his sockets seeing Lan Qiren, Lan Xichen and a Lan healer standing on one side of the bed occupied by faint-looking Wei Wuxian, whose hand was held by none other than the Second Jade, Lan Wangji.

Lan Qiren looked tired and resigned, the healer stood firm with slightly offended spark in his eyes, however, it was the look on Lan Xichen’s face that was the most disturbing. Pale and disbelieving, looking almost in shock, shaking his head slightly and clearly controlling his breathing as if trying not to lose his composure, the Lan Sect Leader was listening to the healer’s explanation.

Then Jiang Cheng started to pay attention to what was said...

“...have developed my techniques for years, Sect Leader, and perfected them when you were still a child. There is no possibility of a mistake. He really went through several phases of starvation and low nutrition during his life, multiple broken bones and whippings, and considering the damage from the fall into the Burial Mounds it is a miracle he is still alive. And I am certain, his core was not melted, but surgically removed.”

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Wei Wuxian was resting in bed after drinking an awful concoction aimed to decrease his dizziness and invigorate him, when Lan Qiren returned with his older nephew. Lan Xichen looked mildly surprised seeing him in Lan healing pavilion.

“Young master Wei, is everything alright?”

“Sect leader Lan,” he nodded his head, “forgive me for not greeting you properly. I would gladly bow, but I was forbidden from moving off of the bed,” he said, looking accusatorily at Lan Zhan and the Lan head healer.

“Wei Ying needs rest,” said Lan Zhan.

“Wangji is right, young master Wei needs all the rest he can get,” confirmed Lan Liangchen, looking at his sect leader.

“It is fine, young master Wei. If my head healer says you are in no condition to stand on ceremony, I will not hold it against you,” Lan Xichen looked back to his shufu and Lan daifu. “What happened?”

“It is of utmost importance, Xichen, that whatever you hear in this room will not get out of it,” Lan Qiren warned his nephew. After getting an agreeing nod, he continued, “young master Wei bumped into me this afternoon, and since there was something I wanted to talk to him about, I have invited him to my office.”

“More like demanded to follow you, xiansheng,” retorted Wei Wuxian with a sneer.

“’Do not disrespect the elder’, ’Sneering for no reason is prohibited’.”

“I am not one of your sect’s disciples xiansheng”

“Yet, like I told you earlier, I was your teacher once, therefore I am forever your teacher. Now stay quiet and let me explain the situation without unnecessary interruptions,” said Lan Qiren to Wei Wuxian, then, turning to Lan Xichen, he continued. “Like I mentioned, I invited young master Wei to my office to confront him about his unorthodox cultivation. I am aware you were not informed about certain things during the war, Xichen, and I had no opportunity to share some of the information not related to the clan and sect matters, as those were irrelevant at the time to the restoration efforts of Cloud Recesses. Now, however, there is no way of explaining the situation without passing my knowledge to you.

“During the first months of the Sunshot Campaign, shortly after Wei Wuxian joined the efforts, I was informed by one of my associates that Wen Chao and his retainers had thrown someone into the Burial Mounds. Unfortunately, I managed to associate this person with Wei Wuxian months after, when news of his new cultivation style and continuous refusals to carry his sword got to Cloud Recesses. Since Wen Zhuliu was Wen Chao’s bodyguard at the time, I assumed that his core has been lost to the Core Melting Hand. To my surprise, when I checked Wei Wuxian’s meridians...”

“By force,” interrupted Wei Wuxian. Judging by Lan Xichen’s face, he could not decide whether to be horrified by the tale or amused by the bickering.

“’Do not interrupt.’ I already apologised, now let me finish. When I checked Wei Wuxian’s meridians, they were whole, but there was no golden core in his lower dentian.”

If he could pull it off, Lan Xichen’s eyebrows would travel straight to his hairline, they were so high in astonishment and disbelieve.

“How is it possible? I have checked the meridians of many of Wen Zhuliu’s victims and every time the meridians were damaged beyond repair,” said the First Jade, getting paler by the minute.

“There is a surgery, a very old one, allowing the transfer of a golden core from the donor to the recipient,” explained Lan Liangchen. “There are only few copies of it left, as it was used for nefarious purposes one too many times. Most of the copies were destroyed, however, one of them is in the Forbidden Section of our library.”

“There’s Forbidden Section?” asked Wei Wuxian, trying to distract them from the topic of his golden core, and partially out of curiosity.

“Yes. Will take Wei Ying when he feels better,” said Lan Zhan.

“Wangji, not now,” scolded Lan Qiren

“Yes, shufu.”

“Are you certain Lan daifu? There must be another explanation.”

“I am certain, Xichen. I have run a full diagnostic on him. The state of his body is truly atrocious, considering he was raised in one of the major sects. Malnutrition since he was about 5 till 9 th year of life, multiple broken and/or bruised bones, whip scars, low nutrition periods... I am full of wonder that he even survived. Then the Burial Mounds; his body was in pure agony, there are still bones and organs that have not finished healing and are clearly thwarted from doing so by the amount of resentful energy stored in his meridians. I would dare to assume it was keeping him alive at one point and he never thought of actually cleansing himself of it to finish healing.”

“I couldn’t,” said Wei Wuxian rebelliously. “How else would I be able to protect Yunmeng Jiang? We lost everything in the Wen attack, only handful of us left. Jiang Cheng was only 17 when he lost his parents and became sect leader; and recruiting during Sunshot only gave us so much. He had to rebuild the sect and Lotus Pier basically from scratch, with only war spoils to finance everything. He was excluded from the sworn brotherhood, left only at the mercy of Jin Guangshan, constantly resisting his nagging about shijie’s marriage to his peacock of a son. I had to have a way to protect the sect...” his speech was interrupted by a sudden coughing fit.

Lan Zhan reacted quickly, helping him sit up, calm down and drink some water. He looked at his fellow Lans with reproach.

Oh Lan Zhan, guarding me even from uncharitable thoughts.

“Thank you, Lan Zhan,” he said out loud, lying back down.

The remaining Lan trio was speechless for a minute. Lan Qiren looked mildly disturbed; Lan head healer was deep in thought, while Lan Xichen was fighting an internal war.

Hearing the truth for once hurts, doesn’t it? thought Wei Wuxian. Keeping his brother out of a major sect alliance was a thorn in his side for a long time. He was blaming himself for it. Because why would anyone want an alliance with a sect having a demonic cultivator in their midst, even if said demonic cultivator helped win the war.

“It was never my intension to keep Jiang Wanyin out of the alliance,” said Lan Xichen in a daze. “I only wanted Nie Mingjue and Meng Yao to stop fighting and start trusting each other again.”

“It is not important now, Xichen, we can get back to this issue at a later time. Let us focus on the matter at hand,” Lan Qiren interjected. “As I was saying, Wei Wuxian’s golden core was not melted, which means it had to be surgically removed. Lan Liangchen could think of only one other surgeon capable of performing this surgery.”

“That is why you asked for Wen Qing and her branch,” Lan Xichen realised, eyes wide open in understanding. His face was pale, breath clearly controlled as if not to lose himself in today’s revelations. He started shaking his head slightly as if to clear his thoughts. Sect leader Lan looked back to the head healer.

“Lan daifu, are you certain there was no mistake in your diagnosis? Are you sure your techniques gave you accurate reading?”

I really wouldn’t question a head healer if I were you, thought Wei Wuxian, seeing the offended spark that flashed in Lan Liangchen’s eyes. He tried it once with Jiang head healer before the fall of Lotus Pier. He will never forget being paralysed from his neck down for the whole of the treatment after one of Madam Yu’s punishments, and then some until he was begging Jiang daifu for forgiveness. He has goose bumps to this day just remembering it.

“I am more than certain. I have developed my techniques for years, Sect Leader, and perfected them when you were still a child. There is no possibility of a mistake. He really went through several phases of starvation and low nutrition during his life, multiple broken bones and whippings, and considering the damage from the fall into the Burial Mounds it is a miracle he is still alive. And I am certain, his core was not melted, but surgically removed.”

“So, we need to bring Wen Qing to the Cloud Recesses to find out what kind of experiments were young master Wei put through?”

“I said already, I was not experimented on. Why are you not listening?”

“Will you tell us then why Wen Qing performed the surgery?”

Loud bang of the door sliding unexpectedly open was the only thing alerting the occupants of the room of the newcomer.

“Tell me, Wei Wuxian, what exactly happed your golden core?!”

“Shit.”

#golden core reveal #good teacher lan qiren #lan zhan/wei ying #mo dao zu shi #the untamed #ao3 fanfic #lan wangji #mdzs #wangxian #wei wuxian

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wangxianficrecs · 1 year

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seeking the magic below by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot)

seeking the magic below

by Leahelisabeth (fortheloveofcamelot)

Gen, 10k, wangxian

Summary: The moment moonlight touched the edge of the crater above him, Lan Wangji forgot all about the three land boys. Nothing could compare to the glow bathing him. Every inch of him felt alive, electrified, like he had never been more himself. The power poured into him, channeling itself through his forehead ribbon and into his body. He sunk into a deep meditative state so he could hardly tell the difference between him and the moonlight. Lan Wangji was rudely pulled out of meditation by the sound of yelling from above him. He had no time to react before three boys, the land boys from earlier, fell from somewhere above and splashed into the pool. One of them, the pretty one, Wei Wuxian, fell basically into his lap, driving Lan Wangji under the water. Their eyes met for one startled moment before Lan Wangji fled the pool. He had made a huge mistake. Wei Wuxian, Jiang Cheng, and Nie Huaisang have all been turned into Mermen. It is up to Lan Wangji to exchange his tail for legs, walk on land, and somehow strip them of their newfound powers. Loosely based on the H2O:Just Add Water/Mako Mermaids franchise.

My comments: Let me just start by saying I don't know anything about the H2O/Mako angle and that didn't trip me up one whit. I love mer-ji, he's so stately and silvery and solemn. Meanwhile, wwx and his buddies are definitely still The Idiot Trio, bless 'em. But once lwj follows them out of the ocean, there's getting to know each other, and finding a deeper connection - that neither of them wants to give up if lwj achieves his goal of taking away their accidental tails. Fanart at the end is pretty gripping, too.

alternate universe - mermaids, alternate universe - high school, transformation, bullying, first meetings, first kiss, necromancy, based on mako mermaids, mermagic (that totally needs to be a word), getting to know each other, cultural differences, getting together, not-quite-enemies to friends to lovers, slight mystery, absolutely beautiful fanart, very light angst, good brother lan xichen, happy ending, @leahlisabeth

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lilnasxvevo · 8 months

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The reason I think that that addition is stupid is because Jin Guangyao saying “Ooh does it sting that Jiang Cheng came to rescue his NEPHEW but not YOU?” is that it would have worked for any other sibling or semi-sibling pair in the show! It even would have worked the other way around!

Thought experiments:

-If Wei Wuxian had come to rescue Jin Ling but not Jiang Cheng would Jiang Cheng’s feelings have been hurt? (Yes)

-If there was a situation where Wei Wuxian came to save, like, Lan Wangji but not Jiang Yanli would her feelings have been hurt? (Yes)

-If Lan Wangji came to save Wei Wuxian but not Lan Xichen would Xichen’s feelings have been hurt? (Yes)

-If Lan Xichen came somewhere to save Jin Guangyao but not Lan Wangji would Wangji’s feelings have been hurt? (Yes)

-If Nie Mingjue came somewhere to save Lan Xichen but not Nie Huaisang would Huaisang’s feelings have been hurt? (Yes)

So the issue is NOT about Jin Guangyao growing up an only child and not understanding what siblings are like. He knows, broadly, what siblings are like—he knows lots of siblings!

The issue is simply that he doesn’t know what WEI WUXIAN is like, because he never really knew Wei Wuxian and no one was willing to talk about what he was like as a person after his death. He doesn’t know that Wei Wuxian just straight up DOES NOT VALUE HIMSELF and has EXTREME trouble understanding how much people love him and has trouble seeing himself as someone worth saving! So he not only doesn’t think anyone would bother rescuing someone like him but he especially can’t see why Jiang Cheng would rescue him because he can’t see how much Jiang Cheng still loves him! He’s so confused by Jin Guangyao’s attempted barb because he’s like, “No, I’m a worthless piece of shit and Jiang Cheng hates me. What part of that makes you think he would come to save me?”

It’s also, secondarily, Jin Guangyao’s lack of understanding of how Jiang Cheng sees Wei Wuxian. Wei Wuxian was always the ultimate Yunmeng Jiang disciple, the person who was constantly not only attempting the impossible but succeeding every single time. Jiang Cheng has a lot of hero worship for Wei Wuxian even as an adult, and it’s understandable because Wei Wuxian was a once-in-a-lifetime genius and prodigy at literally everything he turned his hand to, invented a whole new branch of cultivation, and look—he even came back from the dead! That’s the most impossible thing he’s ever done, but something being impossible has never stopped him before! (Jiang Cheng does not know at this point that Wei Wuxian did not CHOOSE to come back from the dead and played absolutely no part in it.)

Jiang Cheng didn’t come for Wei Wuxian because Wei Wuxian is the most insanely powerful person alive, and even if he was powerless he’d be able to handle himself in a pinch because he’s an unparalleled genius who’s quick on his feet and can find a solution to every problem. Jiang Cheng, on the other hand, is MERELY one of the top five best cultivators alive. What could he possibly do to help Wei Wuxian that Wei Wuxian couldn’t do himself?

Jin Ling, on the other hand, is Jiang Cheng’s idiot baby nephew who has just been thrown into a very dangerous situation with, from Jiang Cheng’s perspective, no one to protect him. (Jiang Cheng still feels like Wei Wuxian turned his back on the Jiang and doesn’t yet understand that Wei Wuxian would gladly die for Jin Ling.) He needs help. He needs protection. He needs someone to get him the hell out of there. HE NEEDS HIS JIUJIU.

So yeah, Jiang Cheng went to rescue Jin Ling but not Wei Wuxian. Because Jin Ling was the one who actually needed his help.

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rosethornewrites · 2 years

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5/30-6/4 NR, E, & M reading

The usual

Finished

Explicit:

Library, by tailor31415

"Lan WangJi gave no other response than a snarl against Wei WuXian's ear, breath puffing out against his skin in a blast of heat, and Wei WuXian let out a gasp as he realized he had finally, finally cracked the surface of the impenetrable Jade."

Mature:

Rare Beauty, by Anonymous

Wei Ying takes hold of the books, sheepishly sliding them toward himself. Then he looks at Lan Wangji, his pout transforming into a mischievous smile. “You didn’t peek inside them, did you, Lan Zhan?”

Lan Wangji says nothing, but he steadily holds Wei Ying’s gaze.

“Don’t tell me you’re still embarrassed by things like this,” Wei Ying says. He leans an elbow on the desk and flips one of the books open to an image of a man bending another over a low-hanging tree branch. “After all these years? Ah, Lan Zhan?”

Nie Huaisang sends Wei Wuxian some erotic books at Cloud Recesses. Lan Wangji accidentally intercepts them—and precipitates a revelation

Unfinished

Not Rated:

Jiang Cheng- Dumb Ways to Die, by such_stuff_as_dreams_are_made_on

Jiang Cheng somehow manages to send his consciousness back in time. However, instead of saving everyone, he keeps on dying.

No Loss, by eb4life

After being forced to remain stuck in his wolf form by Madam Yu, Wei Wuxian conforms to her wishes of making it appear that he's runaway from home by doing just that. When he's God knows how far from home and manages to get captured by the knights of a king he's only heard rumors of, Wei Wuxian expects to be killed or imprisoned as the king's personal attack dog. He doesn't expect to move from "exotic pet" to "closest friend" within only weeks of his stay at the king's side. This story is inspired by Bisclavret.

The Untamed: To Walk in One's Shoes, by YenGirl

It turns out that that old adage of 'To walk a mile in someone's shoes' proves to be the most effective way for three siblings to understand one another. Too bad there's a wedding involved.

You double-faced entendre, by pink-lotus-pods (Waterlogged_fireflies)

Five years since the Yiling Patriarch surrendered himself to Lanling Jin.

Seven months since Yuandao woke up in a mudfield, caked in blood and filth and his mind completely wiped clean. Seven months since Yuandao traced the scars on his body and made up stories for them, because he didn't know the history of his own body.

He'd heard somewhere that amnesiacs get dreams, sometimes. He wished he got dreams, but his dreams were always gone by morning. He wondered if he was the kind of amnesiac to simply just... not remember his previous life. An anomaly. His Yulang-jie always said that he was always exceeding expectations.

Exceeding expectations.

Now where had he heard that before?

Or, an amnesiac Wei Wuxian wakes up, gets himself a new family and is immediately roped into a political schism, EXACTLY in that order. Updates will be once every two weeks.

Mature:

Keep Holding On, by abCEE

As they reached an inn and Wei Wuxian got them a room with three beds, the world seemed to have frozen for Jiang Yanli when her brother suddenly fainted and Jiang Wanyin was just fast enough to catch him before his body could hit the floor.

"A-Xian!"

"Wei Wuxian!"

In which after the Lotus Pier Massacre: Wei Wuxian was greatly injured by Zidian, Jiang Yanli left the inn to buy the medicines and food, and Jiang Wanyin distracted the Wens.

(With a bonus of Wei Wuxian knowing the title of the song and more things ensued inside the Xuanwu Cave that may or may have not involved Lan Wangji's forehead ribbon)

Canon diverged from there.

Impossible Remains, by Jengabears

Jiang Cheng wakes slowly to the feeling of spiritual energy swimming through his veins. Not just swimming. Singing. Flooding. He was filled with it. He didn't know if it was because he had been without any for so long or if Baoshan Sanren had chosen to make him stronger, but he had never felt so powerful in his life. It was glorious. It was everything. He felt alive again. Whole. Better than whole. He had to thank her. He had to scream his joy across the mountain. He was so infinitely grateful.

He ripped off his blindfold, turned to look around him, praises and gratitude resting on the tip of his tongue. Yet what his eyes rested on was a face he never expected to see. His joy and gratitude instantly snuffed into ashes in his mouth. His eyes widened in horror at the sight which greeted him. He wished he could take everything back. Every thought which had passed through his mind since he'd woken.

How could this happen?

Wei Wuxian dies in the core transfer.

Time, by WithBroomBefore

Time travel fix-it AU, diverging from after Wei Wuxian's death and before Lan Wangji's punishment.

One: Perhaps the not-voice is a spirit, wailing its own grief. Two: Perhaps it is Wei Wuxian. There is no shortage of unhappy spirits in the world, now, so there is no certainty of that, but Lan Wangji must find out if there is any chance at all. Three: They have not taken his guqin, but the guards will hear it if he plays, and they may stop him. Four: He must then leave Cloud Recesses.

Get it right (this time), by AmiraAlzilu

Death would be a fate too kind for Wei Wuxian. He should pay for every sin he committed.

At least that’s the only explanation he has for this impossible situation. After falling from the cliff he woke up in his 15 year old body, just before his months of study at Cloud Recesses.

So, thinking it was for the best, he decides to disappear when he was supposed to be searching for their lost invitation.

Little does he know someone else came back in time with him.

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #chen qing ling #untamed fanfiction

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robininthelabyrinth · 2 years

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Xue Yang and Wei Wuxian role reversal - e.g. Jiang Sect Xue Yang, living-on-the-streets demonic cultivator Wei Wuxian (XXC, SL, A-Qing included?) What would it take to make that happen?? How would it play out?

"I'm telling you, Jiang Cheng, this kid is brilliant," Xue Yang insisted, dragging the other man behind him through the streets of Yiling. "His shit is the good shit."

"If my mother was alive, she'd beat you bloody," Jiang Cheng muttered. "How did you manage to spend most of your life in a Great Sect and still talk like...well, like that?"

"I also act like 'that'," Xue Yang pointed out. "And 'that' is what got you out from the Lotus Pier when it was burning and took you to ground somewhere safe while the Wen were hunting us down. Imagine if they'd caught us!"

"I still can't believe you murdered someone for their house."

"They were a very nasty someone and they deserved it and also, again, imagine what would've happened if we'd been caught. They had Wen Zhuliu with them - it would've been all over for us. Anyway, not the point - the point is winning this fucking war and saving all our asses, and this kid, I'm telling you, this kid is the key to us doing that."

"Uh-huh. Remind me again how some random street kid and his blind sidekick, I think you called her, is going to be saving our...to winning the war?"

"Just curse, it won't actually hurt you. And he's not just any kid," Xue Yang grinned widely. "He's the Yiling Patriarch."

#minific fills

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featherfur · 3 years

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Meng Yao should have been around when Jiang Cheng was running around with his head cut off trying to make disciples out of rogues and convince everyone to get started on the war. I just think he’d see this, probably manic, idiot who needs help and is 100% willing to be bossed around and who really doesn’t care about Meng Yao station in life because he’s just fucking desperate and wants to die but can’t because Yanli and just go “actually I’m interested”. Because Jiang Cheng would riot if he knew Meng Yao wanted to go back to his dad, and well Jiang Cheng is very pathetic when he thinks he’s being left behind (“You’re leaving me for the Jin just like Shijie? Tears and loud words for you! Tears and loud words dor a thousand years!”)

And Meng Yao would have a spot in Lotus Pier where he is VERY clearly wanted, he probably doesn’t become sworn brothers with anyone (or LXC and NMJ realize that no one needs to give the Jin any more influence and become sworn brothers with Jiang Cheng) unless it’s Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian (unfortunately WWX will still probably be killed or hunted at the very least but atleast Qin Su is alive? Maybe having MY around will help calm JC into the fact that LWJ wants to bang his brother and help him so JC can convince WWX to let LWJ atleast play for him, then maybe WWX can accidentally let slip about him already destroying one half and LWJ can help destroy the other half… Dunno if the Wen Remnants survive either sorry, honestly I don’t know if anyone can stop JGS in the long run)

So there’s two ways this goes: (under read more I have Thoughts)

Meng Yao DOES go to the Jin Sect still because JC gets wanting your Dad’s Approval even when he’s a dick AND he protects Yanli who immediately adopted him when JC showed up to the war with him. Without being stuck between a Rock and a Hard place (sorry NMJ not everyone is a annoyingly stubborn with their morals as you and MY is being hurt :( leave him alone :(( ) MY is able to continue being pressured without breaking and even though JGS keeps trying to get him to manipulate JC, MY won’t and won’t manipulate NMJ either and every time he goes to Lotus Pier to ‘look into’ the Jiang Sect he actually just spends the week being plied with children and listening to Jiang Cheng explain the fashion industry Again and talk about silks vs cashmeres vs wool so he just gets a vacay and is more prepared to stand up against his dad.

Also JC and Yanli catch on pretty quick to Madam Jin abusing MY because they were there after Madam Yu would hurt WWX and they know the signs of trying to hide the pain and Yanli suddenly starts Show Up whenever Madam Jin tries anything because that is her Didi now and she will protect him and if anyone ELSE tries to mess with him she will rip them apart like when Jin Zixun tries to bother WWX.

JGS does eventually manage to frame something on WWX but MY intervenes immediately by telling JC the truth and without the ‘did my kinda insane PTSD ridden brother so this?” Panic thoughts JC gets his people and is waiting for the force of Jin and smaller sects, with his two sworn brothers on either side. Because yeah NMJ absolutely hates the Wen but can he really ignore LXC and JC? Plus NHS on the side? He’s only there to protect WWX, anyone else can get fucked and even then he’s only protecting WWX because JC asked him too because NMJ thinks WWX sucks for choosing the wens because he’s very much of the one track ‘the wens suck’ mind. MY pretends he has no idea what’s going on but he does summon Jin Zixuan on ‘accident’ who shows up, annoyed he had to leave his kid, and is like “are we really going to accuse Nie Mingjue, known Wen hater, of protecting Wei Wuxian and lying about his innocence? Because his sword is the same size as my body and I’d rather Not”

(okay he’s more polite and subtle but that’s the gist) somehow Jin Guangshan dies, I’m voting Yanli poisoned him because I think Meng Yao is 100% willing at this point to simply take the abuse because Jiang Cheng and Lan Xichen aren’t essentially telling him to murder his father and that he’s stupid for not holding harder to his morals (sorry NMJ,,, you just,, I love you but MY is hurting and he’s not as stabby as you) NMJ is still very much crankily telling him his dad sucks whenever they meet but Jiang Cheng gets all sparkly whenever MY is around because MY will say he’s Doing Good, so there’s only so much room before JC start just biting anyone who even looks at MY wrong. (NMJ says he’s proud of JC once and JC just starts crying and NMJ UnderstandsTM why MY won’t leave him alone)

But Yanli has to be the one to kill him because MY wouldn’t because he’s a filial son and probably hasn’t lost his hope he will be Loved, Jin Zixuan wouldn’t because he’s like the only one in the entire show not down with murder, Madam Jin is not about to give up the power and money that comes from being the wife of Jin Guangshan even if JZX would take care of her because Yanli clearly is willing to rip everyone apart who fucks with her family and unlike Jiang Cheng is willing to change the status quo, and if JGS dies on a hunt they’ll blame WWX so Yanli just poisons him slowly and he dies from ‘illness’. JZX takes power, Meng Yao is told he’s amazing twelve times a day because JZX can do busy work and argue against anyone but he cannot have a small talk conversation to save his life. Life continues peacefully, Jiang Cheng keeps kidnapping JZX’s advisor because he misses him. Meng Yao knows how to control literally every single great sect but he’s busy chasing down his nephews and helping Jiang Cheng avoid marriage offers to do anything.

Once Jin Guangshan died, LXC and MY both swooped in to have the Wen Remnants moved somewhere else to ‘civilize’ them (using LXC’s own words here) and WWX is very much caught between Jiang Cheng and Lan Wangji arguing over who he’s going home with and he’s honestly never felt more Loved TM. WWX spends six months to break the rest of the tiger rally under the grumpy/watchful eye of NMJ who still isn’t happy anyone from the Wen’s is still alive but he’s weak to puppy eyes and also when he’s being strong armed by his sworn brothers, MY, and NHS (though he still keeps an eye on the actual cultivators, he’s pretty much forgotten the rest of the Wen Remnants exist he just cares about the ones who know how to use a sword). Wangxian happens, idk how I’m voting for a wild Jingyi another orphan decides that he wants to meet the Purple Angry Man and body slams into WWX’s legs trying to get to the Purple man and LWJ catches him and it’s a full on romantic moment of staring into each other’s eyes while Jiang Cheng makes disgusted noises and Meng Yao pats his hand and just tells him to accept it.

Or Meng Yao stays in Lotus Pier because Jiang Cheng has problems and Meng Yao loves a messy loudmouth aggressive bitch with a secret heart of gold. Also Jiang Cheng is the exact kind of Demi-aroace dummy to not realize Meng Yao has a crush on LXC and keeps sending him over to Cloud Recesses to help with trade or something and MY gets to hang out with his crush constantly.

MY is Jiang Cheng’s personal advisor since WWX is currently refusing to process his trauma and staying in a very traumatic place. MY does try to help but WWX doesn’t trust him and probably only half trusts him around JC, BUT MY is very good with kids and helps work with JC on how to slip WWX supplies while negotiating directly with Nie and Lan without Jin glaring over him this time, and Jin Zixuan is more than happy to help when he can because again he’s just like the only one with modern morals and wants Lotus Pier to be strong since if all the sects fall then well the fucking demons/ghosts they hunt will eat them. So WWX is slowly atleast not ready to kill him, Meng Yao finds out WWX already destroyed half the Tiger Tally and tries to get him to let NMJ and LXC help him destroy it further (because that ties the three sects closer and so WWX won’t just stab someone if someone isn’t happy about the Wen’s existing)

Yanli poisons Jin Guangshan again because I think that’s the best way for him to go, Meng Yao does grieve but also that lasts for three minutes before Jiang Cheng shows up with some children he found in Yunmeng and Meng Yao needs to explain to him again that just because the kid latches on doesn’t mean you can take them home. But with JGS out of the way it’s a lot easier to strong arm NMJ into letting the Lan take the remnants (JC and NMJ still aren’t happy about it but NMJ can’t fight the three other sects and JC is getting his brother back and he’ll take the Wen living if that means WWX is too) and WWX returns to Lotus Pier. The truth of the golden core comes out probably via WWX having a flashback or panic attack or something (or that one theory of Yanli knowing,,,) words happen, WWX storms off to find LWJ.

Meng Yao wonders why he likes messy cry babies but still helps out Jiang Cheng because they’re technically brother in laws and also because he really does care about him. Wangxian happens and now Jiang Cheng is really pissed but WWX also said he wasn’t going to just up and leave so they’re on a rotating system but honestly everyone’s just waiting for them to move permanently to Lotus Pier because Lan Wangji has this giant hole in his heart for kids who love Wei Wuxian and Lotus Pier is filled with kids who are Jiang and therefore are insane ans love WWX.

Personally I think this one is the least likely but it sounds very nice right?

#the untamed #mdzs #Jiang Cheng #Meng Yao #Jin Guangyao #fix it #sorta #Lan Xichen #Nie Mingjue #Jiang Yanl #Wei Wuxian #read more #don’t take any of this seriously lmao pls I’m just fucking around

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stiltonbasket · 3 years

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Qin Su!WWX AU, Jiang Cheng’s reactions to both Jin Zixuan and Wei Ying being alive. And the revelation of the golden core transfer.

How many kids to wangxian end up having? Like do they end up beating nielan?

the revelation happens very close to canon, so take some reaction to wwx being alive!! ^_^

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“What’s wrong with him?” he hears Jiang Cheng say, hovering awkwardly at Jin Ling’s side with Lan Jingyi and Ouyang Zizhen crowding up behind him. “Wei Wuxian?”

“He just fought off all those fierce corpses, Jiang-zongzhu!” Jin Zixuan snaps, aggrieved. Or at least that’s what Wei Wuxian thinks he must have said: the smell of spilt blood never made him sick before he came back as a woman, or even when he and Lan Zhan were digging through that mass grave in Moling ten weeks ago, but something seems to have changed since then. “Do you want some water, Wei Wuxian?”

“Is it safe to drink out of the blood pool?” Jingyi pipes up, reminding Wei Wuxian a great deal of his xiao-shushu. “Sang-shushu, you carry water bottles, right?”

Nie Huaisang pulls a waterskin out of his space pouch and crouches down beside him. “Here, Wei-xiong,” he says anxiously, grabbing Wei Wuxian’s clammy hands and wrapping his fingers around the skin. “It’s probably warm by now, but it’s better than nothing.”

Wei Wuxian shakes his head and slumps down against Lan Zhan. “No,” he croaks. “I’ll choke on it. My head’s swimming.”

Someone shouts outside the Demon-Slaughtering Cave, and a shadow disappears from Wei Wuxian’s field of view as Nie Mingjue strides away into the ruined courtyard to see what the matter is. The breeze from his rustling skirts strikes Wei Wuxian full in the face, bringing back the stench of the corpse blood spattered all over his clothes, and Wei Wuxian makes a miserable groaning sound before squeezing his eyes shut.

Living in this body has taken a turn for the worse, he decides. Qin Su was in perfect health before she summoned him, and Wei Wuxian believed that all the exercise from his months on the road would make her body even healthier, but the events of today have certainly proved him wrong.

“Here, Wei Ying,” Lan Zhan murmurs. “Use this.”

He reaches into his bag and pulls out a clean handkerchief, perfumed with sandalwood incense from the jingshi and just a touch of lavender from the laundry soap Lan Xichen favors. Wei Wuxian presses the soft silk over his nose and breathes into it, feeling his heart slow down a little as Lan Zhan wraps his arms around him and starts passing him spiritual energy.

“So you’re alive again,” Jiang Cheng mutters. “And you stole Jin-furen’s body to do it.”

“I didn’t steal anything,” Wei Wuxian shoots back, surprising even himself with the heat of his irritation. “She summoned me, so even if you hit me with Zidian like you did to Mo Xuanyu, it’s not going to--”

“I thought he was you!” his brother growls. “He made a dizi and summoned Wen Ning! What else was I supposed to think?”

Wei Wuxian pushes the handkerchief aside to yell at Jiang Cheng--because Wen Ning is still somewhere within earshot, albeit far enough away that A-Ling can’t see him through the crowd of juniors filling the cave--but then the blood-stench hits him twice as hard as before, and Wei Wuxian lurches forward and throws up all over Jiang Cheng’s shoes.

“Wei Wuxian!”

“Wei Ying!” he hears Lan Zhan cry, before someone snatches up the perfumed kerchief, soaks it in clean water, and lays it over his forehead. “You--”

“Oh, I can’t believe this. Have you any shame left at all, to act in such a way right in front of A-Ling--”

“Wangji!” someone else bellows, stopping Jiang Cheng dead in his tracks. “We have bigger problems than whatever’s going on here. I’ve just had word from the Cloud Recesses.”

Lan Zhan goes tense beside him. “What is wrong?”

“A-Qing and Jueying are missing,” Chifeng-zun says desperately. “Your uncle sent Xichen a messenger talisman, and it came back unopened. But A-Qing and A-Ying were in the Meishi with him then, and they were gone by the time he returned from his lecture!”

“He wouldn’t hurt a child,” Nie Huaisang says desperately. “If the girls went to Lanling to find Xichen-ge, he--Da-ge, San-ge wouldn’t, he wouldn’t hurt a child--”

His voice dies away before he can finish his sentence, and he and Lan Zhan exchange a pair of frantic glances: because the only reason any of them are here is because Jin Guangyao had killed a child, before slaughtering the entire Tingshan He clan to ensure that He Su would take the blame for it.

And if Lan Xichen and his children are in Jin Guangyao’s clutches, then...

Wei Wuxian feels his heart sink.

Oh, no, he thinks numbly.

What have I done?

#wangxian #nielan #jin zixuan #the untamed #mo dao zu shi #qin su!wwx #my fic

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aethersea · 3 years

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How do you think an Untamed Queen's Thief AU would turn out? Like, from a conceptual standpoint how would that play out?

Anon, this ask has haunted and tormented me lo, these many ages. Again and again I have returned to it, picking and pulling at the question, and it never comes out clean. I assume this ask was prompted by my tags on a long-ago post, where I noted that both protagonists are prone to whining loudly about minor things to distract from their actual deep-seated anxieties and/or stab wounds, and both are prone to seeing themselves as only really valuable to their loved ones as particularly clever tools. And it’s true, Gen and Wei Wuxian are just awfully similar in that respect, but nothing else fits.

Because look, here is my fundamental dilemma: Wei Wuxian loses everyone he loves, one by one, to war and political dissolution and betrayals both real and perceived, until at last he dies alone, unable to protect or even avenge anyone at all. And then he comes back to life for a romcom murder mystery. Eugenides scoops up a bunch of politically useful people from all backgrounds, bends their loyalty to his aims, and gives them the space and safety they need to heal from their varied traumas and become a strange sort of family. (Costis didn’t really have traumas before meeting Gen, but other than that the point stands.)

One is a story about failure, loss, and grief. One is a story about hope, triumph, and healing.

Plus, one features the dissolution of a previously stable political system into a tense, unsteady truce; the other is about uniting a tense, unsteady truce into a stable political alliance. Thematically and worldbuilding-wise, these stories are following basically opposite arcs.

I have ranted about this in the shower many, many times now.

So, now that I’ve presented my excuses, here’s what I’ve got! I can’t put together a cohesive au that holds water, but please enjoy these Vibes.

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“If I could just…talk to her.”

It was a stupid thing to say and Wei Wuxian knew it. He winced as the words left his lips, but Jiang Yanli was kind enough to stay silent. He was sprawled out on his back beside her lotus throne, one knee bent, one arm flung over his eyes so he wouldn’t have to see the mingled pity and horror on her face. He would never have dared, while Madam Yu was still alive – he’d barely had the courage to sit in the throne room, even when it was expected of him, much less lie down. But it had been eight bloody, exhausting months since she and the sect leader were killed, and Wei Wuxian had finally seen enough battle that Madam Yu’s phantom disapproval was no more than a prickling discomfort. He ignored it, as he ignored so many other pains, to lie at his sister’s feet.

“She’s not a monster,” Wei Wuxian said. His voice was somewhere between pleading and surrender. “You remember, shijie, how she took us in? She could have turned us over to her uncle – she had a duty to. And she risked her brother’s life, keeping us secret.”

“Her own life, too,” Jiang Yanli added. There was no inflection in her voice.

“She cares a lot less about that.” Wei Wuxian knew this, implacably; it was why he and Wen Qing had understood each other so well. They both had siblings to protect.

Jiang Yanli hummed noncommittally. It did not occur to Wei Wuxian that she, too, was a sister with siblings to protect.

“She’s not a monster,” Wei Wuxian repeated. “It was her family who threw her into the Burial Mounds, it wasn’t her choice. She’s not surrounding herself with ghosts and fierce corpses for fun. If we stopped attacking her, if we sent someone in to negotiate, I bet she’d even help us defeat Wen Ruohan.”

“She could help us anyway, if she chose to.” Jiang Yanli was trying to sound impartial, but it wasn’t working. She knew where this conversation was going, and it was all she could do not to grab Wei Wuxian by the collar and scream in his face that he must never leave Lotus Pier, never leave Jiang Cheng, never leave her. That he’d sworn an oath, that he had a duty. That if he was so eager to die, she could save him the effort and drown him in the lake herself. That she loved him.

She might have let herself do it, if she’d thought for a moment it would work. Instead she clasped her hands in her lap, loosely, and watched them tremble. It was not a weakness she normally allowed herself, but she was alone now. Even Wei Wuxian wasn’t looking at her.

“We killed her brother,” Wei Wuxian said. His voice was hollow. “Well, the Jin did, but they’re still our allies. And we’ve done nothing since then but attack her. She’s not going to trust us unless we give her a reason to.”

“So you want me to send you.” Wei Wuxian didn’t answer, but she knew the tenor of his silences by now. Her own voice was smooth, smooth as the lakes of Yunmeng on a summer day, with just as many choking weeds beneath the surface to drown her. Her hands shook and shook. “You want me to send you, and when your corpse leads the next raiding party from the Burial Mounds, you want me to send Jiang Cheng to cut your rotted head from your shoulders.”

Wei Wuxian twisted around to look at her, and the look on his face broke her heart. “She won’t kill me,” he said softly. “I promise. She’s not a monster.”

#finx writes #finx has friends on the internet #queen's thief #the untamed #idk if you're even still around anon – I'm pretty sure it's been over a year since you sent this in #sorry about that #I wish I could say this is the start of a burst of ask-answering that I'll be doing in the next few days #but I know myself too well to commit to something like that #I just found this in my drafts and realized it's actually ready to be posted as it is #sorry @ everyone who's sent in an ask that remains unanswered #I will do my best to get to them all eventually I just......have no energy #no social energy mostly #what little I have I am trying to spend on Hanging Out With Friends #mostly on skype but once or twice even in person #but please know I always enjoy getting asks #even though I'm so terrible at answering #oh also! I haven't read the last queen's thief book yet #pls be nice about spoilers <3

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red-talisman · 4 years

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An unbetaed snippet of post-CQL canon Yunmeng reconciliation, which is mostly extremely morbid and blunt conversation after beating each other hard enough that they’re too tired for their usual conflicting modes of emotional avoidance.

EDIT: now edited and posted on AO3. :D

CW for past suicidal ideation. Part of my “let WWX express some of his cynical humor and creepiness more often” and “let WWX find out about JC’s own sacrifice goddamnit” agendas.

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Jiang Cheng stares blankly into the trees, their trunks slowly disappearing in the deepening darkness of twilight. Wei Wuxian’s back is warm against his and heaving for breath just as heavily. He thinks his ankle might be broken, but Wei Wuxian is probably worse off.

“You’re an asshole,” Wei Wuxian says thickly.

“Hypocrite,” Jiang Cheng mutters without heat, and Wei Wuxian manages a snort between his gasps.

“Yeah.” After a moment, he adds, with an echo of the old Yiling Laozu in his voice, “You know that if you ever do something like that again, I’ll probably find a way to do something worse than I did before.”

“If I do what, save your life by pulling the same fucking sacrificial shit that you do?”

“I swear to every god out there that I will bring you back as a fierce corpse and kill you myself,” Wei Wuxian says in a pleasant, albeit still somewhat breathless, tone. “I will dismember your carcass and make Jin Guangyao look like a fucking amateur.”

“Good thing Mo Xuanyu’s core isn’t worth shit, then,” Jiang Cheng replies. All of his attention is focused on the feeling of his brother’s bones and muscles moving against his own spine.

“You’re an asshole.”

“Yeah.”

There’s a pause. Somewhere distant Jiang Cheng hears the panicked yells of what’s probably the juniors they left behind a few li back. Then Wei Wuxian sighs. “We’re really fucked up.”

Jiang Cheng takes his time considering and discarding several possible responses. His ankle hurts like a bitch; Mo Xuanyu’s core may not be worth shit, but damn if his asshole genius brother hasn’t figured out how to make the most of it anyway. He finally settles on a tired, “Yeah.”

The silence stretches on long enough that Wei Wuxian goes on, more quietly, “You and Shijie are the only reason I didn’t die in the Burial Mounds. The Wens grabbed me before I knew whether or not you’d even survived the core transfer.”

Jiang Cheng tilts his head just enough to glance briefly over his shoulder. “How did you survive the Burial Mounds?”

“Nope, no, I’m not putting that on you. Not even Lan Zhan knows. I can’t...I can’t do that.”

“Fine. Then tell me, is any of it going to come back and bite us in the ass at the worst possible moment?” he asks dryly.

Wei Wuxian snorts, humorless. “Nah. It’s all mine.”

“Would you tell me if it wasn’t?”

When Wei Wuxian hesitates for a few telling seconds, Jiang Cheng mutters, “You fucking asshole.”

“Yeah.” Wei Wuxian sighs again.

“You left me.”

“You didn’t need me.”

“Who the fuck said that?”

The knobs of Wei Wuxian’s spine are starting to press painfully into Jiang Cheng’s. Wei Wuxian snorts. “I was practically a fierce corpse myself when I dragged myself out of the Burial Mounds. Your position as sect leader was too precarious,” he says bluntly. “You were seventeen years old with no real family, a sister who was getting married off anyway, and an adopted brother who’d been controversial years before the war even happened and who was clearly half-mad and getting worse. And I...my mind never really left the Mounds, honestly.” He coughs, makes a wet sound, and spits. “If I stayed much longer I was going to end up dragging you back into Hell with me. I was a risk you couldn’t afford and I wasn’t going to destroy Yunmeng Jiang a second time.”

"Don’t pull that bullshit, Wei Wuxian.” Jiang Cheng is so, so tired. “Mother was wrong. You know Wen Chao was looking for any excuse. You’re as responsible for that as our shidi was for using a round kite.”

Wei Wuxian doesn’t respond. Jiang Cheng makes a mental note to beat that nonsense out of him in the future, when he can lift his arms again and his ankle isn’t most likely broken.

But Jiang Cheng remembers what it was like to try turning weapons, human and sword alike, into tools of peace. There are still whole weeks of the Sunshot Campaign that are just smears of sense-memory: the cacophony of screams and curses; the reek of mass funeral pyres and the soft ash drifting through the air like black, silent snow; the startling warmth of being suddenly drenched in blood after Sandu sliced open another living human. Half the time he’d come back to himself laughing hysterically, unable to see anything through the tears on his face, and as the war dragged on, the tears eventually dried up. It had taken months afterwards to settle into the mindset of rebuilding for Lotus Pier. (If he’s honest with himself, he never really did settle there. There's always a part of him still dragging itself through mud made by blood spilled on battlefields and churned up by soldiers' boots.)

“Jin Ling’s the only reason I never actually killed myself after you died,” Jiang Cheng says. ��...Don’t you ever tell him that.”

“Wait, what?” Wei Wuxian snaps.

“You saying I would’ve died without a core - it was never about not having a core, you idiot, not really.” Not to say that hadn’t hurt, and Jiang Cheng really doesn’t know how he would’ve managed life as a commoner. But there were still worse things to lose than a core, which had also just lost and was about to lose yet again. “I had a few ideas on how to do it, depending on where I was and what was available when I decided I might as well get it over with.” He huffs a brief laugh and idly rubs his thumb over Sandu’s hilt. “I thought poison might be a good option, if a little heavy-handed on the metaphor.”

“I’d be laughing,” Wei Wuxian says flatly, “if you weren’t talking about killing my little brother.”

“Am I?”

“You never stopped.”

The silhouettes of the trees start to blur in Jiang Cheng’s eyes. “You left. You left, and everyone died, and somehow I was responsible for keeping our sister’s baby alive while the wolves tried to eat what remained of our sect from every direction. You left.”

“I never wanted to.”

“But you did.”

“Because I didn’t see any other way to keep you safe.”

“Because you chose strangers over family.”

“Because I didn’t see any other way to keep you safe,” Wei Wuxian hisses. Apparently they’re not so exhausted that they can’t get pissed after all. “I was hardly human anymore, Jiang Cheng. If I was going to die, then at least I’d die actually managing to save innocent people this time around and you would be safe from me.”

“I never wanted you to do that for me!”

“And I never wanted you to do that for me!”

The tension that had them both struggling to sit up straight suddenly breaks, and their backs collide again. Jiang Cheng grits his teeth against the urge to groan over the pain that ricochets through his chest and down his limbs. He hears a muffled yelp from behind him.

“You’re a damned fucking asshole and you’re my fucking brother and I hate you and don’t you ever assume you know what I need again, do you understand me,” snarls Jiang Cheng.

“You’re the damned fucking asshole and if you ever do that again then I will brand a reminder into your flesh right over the scar from the discipline whip,” Wei Wuxian snaps back, because he's never held back from fighting dirty if he thought it necessary.

“Fine!”

“Fine.”

They both stare into the dark forest, in opposite directions. It sounds like the juniors have finally picked up their tracks. Useless, the whole lot - Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian hadn't exactly been subtle in stepping aside for a private conversation that inevitably escalated, how could it take the kids this long?

"Those dumbasses had better not forget that we're on a night-hunt," he says.

"Like we did?" Wei Wuxian replies.

"You started it."

"Did not."

"No, I'm not doing this with you."

"Hey, you started this one."

"Shut the fuck up."

They fall silent again. A cold breeze picks up and Jiang Cheng feels Wei Wuxian shiver, pressing back just a little more firmly against Jiang Cheng for warmth, and he...leans back too. Just a little.

"I'm still fucking pissed at you," says Wei Wuxian.

"And I've got years' worth to pay you back for," says Jiang Cheng.

"Fine."

"Sect Leader Jiang!" they hear. "Senior Wei!"

"If you don't show up for the mid-autumn festival," Jiang Cheng suddenly says, "I'll come drag you out of the Cloud Recesses by the heels."

"But the dogs - "

"Don't be an idiot. Jin Ling's dog is the only one allowed in Lotus Pier, you know that."

Well, come to think of it, Wei Wuxian probably doesn't know that, but whatever, now he does. Wei Wuxian is terrifyingly silent, but before Jiang Cheng can say something that will inevitably bring them back to throwing fists, he hears a quiet, "Yeah, okay."

"Do you think they killed each other?" they hear Lan Jingyi asking loudly. "I mean, Sandu Shengshou versus the Yiling Patriarch - who would win?"

"Don't be an idiot," retorts Jin Ling, and Wei Wuxian's body briefly shakes with a laugh. "My uncle, obviously."

"They're both your uncle, idiot!"

Jiang Cheng just sighs and lets his head fall back against Wei Wuxian’s shoulder.

#jiang cheng #wei wuxian #yunmeng bros #yunmeng reconciliation #through inappropriate and blunt conversation #this is not Trauma-Informed (TM)#i just wanted to vent some of my own feelings about them both #jukebox fic #mdzs

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antebunny · 3 years

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April 30: rebirth

(Also called Bargaining–idea is taken from an old Loki fic with the same time travel premise).

When Jiang Yanli dies, Wei Wuxian goes into denial and just runs from Nightless City. He goes back to the Burial Mounds and feverishly works on a time travel array. Within the month he completes it and prepares to travel back in time, but there’s a catch. He first activates the array and then spends the next several hours going through the ritual, while outside the Siege of the Burial Mounds begins. The Wens know what Wei Wuxian is up to so they understand why he’s not bothering to protect them. He completes the ritual just as Jiang Cheng and Lan Zhan burst into the cave. They’re both there, at the front, in order to protect Wei Wuxian, but by the time they arrive it’s too late: the array is fading and Wei Wuxian is already dead. He barely sees them in the entrance when he dies, which leads him to (logical) conclusion that they’re there to kill him.

Here’s the catch: Wei Wuxian gets to go back, rewrite time, and change things. He decides to go back to the day before he got kicked out of the Cloud Recesses. But when time finally arrives at the time he activates the array, everyone gets their memories back. Although a lot of people will remember dying, it’s preferable to actually dying. Then Wei Wuxian has to conduct the ritual again, to ensure that this is the future that stays, and seal the deal with his own life. Basically, in order to change the future Wei Wuxian has to die. And obviously because he's Wei Wuxian, he decides that that’s okay so long as everyone gets to live.

So Wei Wuxian comes back to life with a golden core and cries for a solid minute, scaring tf out of Jiang Cheng, before he gets a grip. Then he proceeds to yell at Jin Zixuan, not get kicked out, and live life like everything’s normal. He enjoys the next six months of peace, and then he gets to work. Once the year is over, he goes on a very long night hunting trip, kills the Xuanwu of Slaughter, and sets up the cave for use. A year later and they’re at the archery competition, where Wei Wuxian still places first, meets Wen Ning again, and doesn’t pull off Lan Zhan’s forehead ribbon.

Then Wen Ruohan is ~mysteriously~ assassinated and the Wens declare war on all the sects in revenge. When the Wens come for Lotus Pier, there’s no personal vendetta, and Wei Wuxian hides in the shadows and drowns all of them. Then he pretends that he got knocked out and was unconscious somewhere hidden from the main battle where Jiang Cheng finds him. They win the war, and Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan are still alive and bickering with each other, the Jiang sect is still strong, etc. etc. Wei Wuxian personally hunts down Wen Zhuliu early in the war, before he can cause any damage. Then he also kills Jin Guangshan, blames it on the Wens (does it make sense? No. does anyone care? No) and Jin Zixuan commits fully to the war. Jin Zixuan learns to appreciate Jiang Yanli during the war, and since they’re already engaged they get married soon afterwards. Jin Guangyao gets taken in as Jin Zixuan’s younger brother, and since Jin Zixuan is a decent person who doesn’t want him to commit crimes but also needs Help, it goes a lot better. Meanwhile Wei Wuxian finds the DafanWen and they move to the Xuanwu cave, which Wei Wuxian has prepared. Also the carcass of the tortoise should scare anyone away.

Wei Wuxian sticks around to see his sister get married, takes Lan Zhan on a tour of Lotus Pier, at the end of which Lan Zhan proposes. Wei Wuxian is confused but figures that Lan Wangji must like this version of him that hasn’t used resentful energy as far as Lan Wangji knows or recused the Wens as far as he knows, or done any of the things that Other Lan Zhan hated him for. The Wens ask him to adopt A-Yuan, which he does after talking about it with Lan Zhan and after they get married. So now Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are married and they have an adopted child. That part was all the fluff and fix-it, cue the angst. The date of Wei Wuxian’s death draws near, and Wei Wuxian starts getting moody and antsy, starts drinking. Yu Ziyuan yells at him, of course, and everyone else worries over him. It is during one of these blackout drunk sessions that Wei Wuxian tells Lan Wangji that he fully expects Lan Wangji to regret marrying him in the future. Lan Wangji swears up and down that he won’t, and Wei Wuxian kinda critiques himself and calls himself selfish, for marrying Lan Wangji and raising a kid when he knows it’s not going to last.

Basically Wei Wuxian starts getting skittish and disappears for periods of time to the Burial Mounds, where he acquires enough injuries that Lan Wangji suspects that someone is hurting him, which Wei Wuxian vehemently denies, but Lan Wangji is still Onto him. He goes to Jiang Yanli, who says that Wei Wuxian has been acting differently ever since he came back from the Cloud Recesses, seemed to know things that were going to happen before they did, disappears at odd times and incidents that occur when Wei Wuxian is missing, and they get Jiang Cheng, who recalls that one time Wei Wuxian woke up in the middle of the night and just bawled, and after that didn’t lose his temper on Jin Zixuan, pulled back on his most crazy antics.

Still, none of them suspect the exact day, so on that day, Wei Wuxian gets up, tells Lan Wangji he’s going to train the Jiang juniors, and then just…disappears. Night comes and Lan Wangji is already worried, according to the juniors he never showed. Yu Ziyuan accuses him of slacking, but then Lan Wangji barges in crying, holding a note. In it, Wei Wuxian doesn’t tell him about the time travel, but says that Wei Wuxian is going forever, and Lan Wangji will understand why tomorrow. He understands that it’s too much to wish for that Lan Wangji won’t hate him, after how selfish he’s been and what a terrible person he’s been, marrying Lan Wangji and pretending it can last, but he hopes Lan Wangji can still look back and remember him fondly in the future. He apologizes again and tells Lan Wangji again that he didn’t mean to tarnish Lan Wangji’s reputation or saddle him with a child, but A-Yuan is here now and he knows Lan Wangji loves A-Yuan. He leaves a similar cryptic note for Jiang Cheng and Jiang Yanli, apologizing to all of them for things they don’t understand.

Lan Zhan immediately begins searching for him all through the night, and then in the morning everyone blacks out and suddenly has memories of a different past couple of years, for most people starting with Wen Ruohan getting assassinated. People don’t immediately suspect the Yiling Patriarch, because they think he was simply never created in this timeline, and lives as Head Disciple Jiang and Lan Wangji’s husband, but Wei Wuxian’s family know better. They immediately rush to the Burial Mounds, and find it guarded by corpses. Inside the cave, Wei Wuxian begins conducting the ritual, also crying because he really had a happy life this time and he really really doesn’t want to go, but he can’t bear to revert to the original timeline, not when everyone is still alive here, so he continues. Yu Ziyuan and Jiang Fengmian find out about the whole yiling patriarch thing and jiang yanli is just like…i don’t care. Jin Guangshan is dead and can’t care, Jin Guangyao doesn’t have a vendetta, Jin Zixuan does what his wife says, and Jiang Yanli is alive so Jiang Cheng has no beef, plus he sees the lengths Wei Wuxian went through to save everyone. He also understands the letter now, then he and Jiang Yanli confront Lan Wangji like…do you no longer love him? Lan Wangji of course reacts poorly to this accusation and denies it. They leave A-Yuan behind and go to the Mounds with the intention of convincing Wei Wuxian that he doesn’t have to run away and they want him back.

They arrive in the cave just as Wei Wuxian is finishing with the ritual. But of course, parallels, Wei Wuxian looks up to see them standing in the entrance of the cave and thinks that they’re there to kill him, but also can see how distressed Lan Wangji looks and attempts to reassure him that he doesn’t have to kill Wei Wuxian! You know, his husband in this timeline! Because Wei Wuxian will do it himself! Wei Wuxian makes them fight some corpses while he rushes to finish the ritual, because they seem keen on stopping him (“i know you disapprove of demonic cultivation but this is the only way to save everyone”). Lan Wangji tackles him away from his ceremonial knife, and Wei Wuxian fights back (still has golden core!) they both fight desperately (“i have to do it myself Lan Zhan, otherwise I would let you do it”) over the knife. Jiang Cheng insists that there must be another solution, bc he doesn’t want Jiang Yanli to die. Then Wen Qing and Wen Ning walk into the cave, and Wen Qing like the genius she is, proposes the Alternate Solution. (What is it? Idk. just a magic solution in which Wei Wuxian doesn’t have to die). Wei Wuxian pauses in the middle of fighting Lan Wangji (“i don’t have to die?” he asks while Lan Wangji is busy shattering the knife and then he and Jiang Cheng pin him down so he can stop trying to kill himself in front of them. “Nope,” says Wen Qing, the only person with brains here). So Wei Wuxian sits on the floor of the cave, tied with deity-binding thread (Wei Wuxian: let me go Lan Wangji: not until you promise to go with wen qing’s version of the ritual Jiang Cheng: unless…do you want to leave? Wei Wuxian: no!) (What’s the solution? Maybe all of them sacrifice something important to them, maybe they just…all use their power to BS their way through a solution? Again, I don’t know).

So Lan Wangji unties Wei Wuxian and they hug and kiss and they all head back to Lotus Pier, where they eat a celebratory dinner, and reunite with A-Yuan, and Wei Wuxian celebrates the fact that he can live this happy life and not owe the world anything/need to go through the ritual.

The End!

#mdzs #the untamed #antebunny's april prompts #spring fest 2021 #fic outline #my writing

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giraffeter · 3 years

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Jiang Cheng has scars on his back and on his chest. Scars from a whip. Lan Wangji doesn’t know how he got them, although he can guess.

At first, Jiang Cheng hadn’t wanted him to touch them, had tensed up and shied away even in the heat of the moment. Once it became clear that Lan Wangji wasn’t going to ask him about them, though, he gradually let down his guard.

Now, in the unfamiliar bed in the unfamiliar inn, Lan Wangji can stroke his hand over Jiang Cheng’s bare back without even waking him, running his fingertips along the raised lines of the whip marks where they mar his smooth skin. Over the rise of Jiang Cheng’s shoulder, Lan Wangji can see the sword rack. Bichen hangs there, familiar and unfamiliar at the same time after so long apart. He wonders if Jiang Cheng feels the same about Sandu, at the far end of the rack.

Between them hangs Suibian, silent, locked.

*We beat that Wei Wuxian like a sandbag,* the Wen soldier had boasted, *then Wen-gongzi tossed him into the Burial Mounds*

They had fallen on each other the moment they returned to the inn, a crush of hands and mouths and skin. Each trying to reassure himself of the other’s aliveness, his wholeness, each trying to drive away the thought of a body so beloved, broken and discarded somewhere out of reach.

But Suibian is still sealed. Wei Ying is alive somewhere. The idea is enough to haunt Lan Wangji’s thoughts.

Jiang Cheng stirs under his palm. “Can’t sleep?” he mumbles, his voice blurry.

“Mn.” Lan Wangji stops the motion of his hand, feeling guilty for waking him.

Making a small grumpy sound, Jiang Cheng grabs Lan Wangji’s hand and pulls it around himself, snuggling back into Lan Wangji’s arms. He gives Lan Wangji’s hand a pat where it now rests on his stomach and returns to sleep almost immediately.

Lan Wangji presses his cheek against Jiang Cheng’s shoulder, inhaling the scent of him, and tries to lose himself to sleep. In the morning they’ll keep looking.

#zhancheng #lan zhan/jiang cheng #lan wangji #jiang cheng

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ibijau · 3 years

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I guess the question I have for the nhs is a half demon au is: what reason are we going to give for lxc to marry him after he comes back from visiting his mom? Also is he going to save wwx?

wwx did well for himself while nhs was off to live his little demon life, but he is the first person nhs visits upon returning among humans, because he's heard some concerning rumours...

On AO3

Small feet ran to the entrance of the cave, only slowing down at the very last moment and stopping just shy of actually coming in.

“Xian-gege, there’s a person at the gate,” Wen Yuan announced, careful to not actually shout.

Wei Wuxian smiled to himself, proud as always of this most excellent young boy he was helping raise, who obeyed rules much better than Wei Wuxian himself had ever done in his life.

“What sort of person?” Wei Wuxian asked, still hunched over his latest prototype. He was getting somewhere with this, he knew it. He just had to figure out how to…

“It’s an odd person,” Wen Yuan announced. “He says he’s here to see you.”

That was hardly news. Most of the visitors they'd had these last five years had come to the Burial Mounds to see Wei Wuxian. Sometimes, Lan Xichen would also come to see his brother and give them money. And in recent months, some people from the area had started coming to see Wen Qing in hopes she might cure them. But still, people mostly came for Wei Wuxian, either because they wanted to kill him, or because they wanted to join him. Either way, they were usually rejected.

“Did that man give his name?”

“He didn’t,” Wen Yuan announced, sounding indignant that anyone would be so rude. “He says you have to come see him, and then you’ll know him, and you’ll let him in. He sounded very sure.”

That intrigued Wei Wuxian enough to make him look up from his work and walk up to join Wen Yuan. A lot of people knew him, but there weren’t that many he knew, few of which would be sure to be allowed on the Burial Mounds, fewer still who would wish to be there at all. Jiang Cheng was the only person that came to mind, but he’d been around a few times in the years since Wei Wuxian had left Yunmeng Jiang, and Wen Yuan knew him well. Who else, then?

“That man, did he have any trouble walking?”

Wen Yuan shook his head. So it couldn’t be Jin Zixuan then. With his wooden leg, the climb to the gate would have been difficult anyway, and he would not have come unannounced.

“What did he look like?” Wei Wuxian asked, growing puzzled enough to consider meeting the stranger.

“He has a nice face, but it’s weird because of his eyes,” Wen Yuan said. “And he’s dressed with very good fabric, even better than Jiang-gege. And there’s a lot of teeth when he smiles.”

Without a word, Wei Wuxian started walking, with Wen Yuan following him. He didn’t like that description at all. He had hardly met him personally, but he’d heard about that boy in the Jin sect, that Xue Yang who was apparently trying to reproduce some of Wei Wuxian’s creations, with some success. He had an odd smile, Lan Xichen had said once when talking about him, so maybe…

“Oh, and there’s one more thing,” Wen Yuan said, slapping the side of his head. “I should have said first! But he has a mark on his forehead, it’s very red and looks a bit like a flame.”

Wei Wuxian froze.

“Xian-gege?”

“Go get Lan Zhan,” Wei Wuxian ordered. “Tell him there’s an emergency and I need him at the gate immediately. Wen Ning too. And tell Wen Qing to take everyone else to the hideout. No matter what, none of you are coming out until we come to get you. Go! Now!”

Frightened to see him so serious, Wen Yuan didn’t ask any question and scampered away as fast as his legs would take him. Wei Wuxian for his part hurried toward the gate after having made sure he had everything he’d need for a fight, knowing thing might turn vicious if he was right. He cursed as he walked, and hoped to be wrong about the identity of their visitor.

When he reached the gate and saw the man standing there, Wei Wuxian almost believed for a second that he’d been wrong indeed. The stranger, who had his back to the gate, was too tall, his shoulders too broad. But then, hearing that someone was approaching, the man turned to look at Wei Wuxian, and there was no mistake possible.

“Wei-xiong, it’s been a while,” Nie Huaisang said, smiling as if they were old friends who hadn’t seen each other for a few years. “You look worse than I remembered, but better than I expected.”

“Nie-xiong, it’s pretty bold of you to come here after what you’ve done,” Wei Wuxian retorted. “Couldn’t you have made it easier for everyone and stayed dead?”

Nie Huaisang's smile got wider, showing just a little more teeth than a mortal's would have. He looked better than he'd done last time Wei Wuxian had seen him. Healthier and a lot more confident. And why not? Last they'd been around each other, Nie Huaisang had been terrified someone might try to kill him, but he'd now proved just how difficult that would be.

“I would have, but some news reached me that forced me to rejoin the human world after all these years. Wei-xiong, won’t you let me in?”

“I hope you understand why I’d rather not. You have a history of slaughtering people I’d rather not see repeated.”

Nie Huaisang frowned and pinched his lips, looking almost sincerely hurt by the reminder of his past deeds.

“I’ve been told your shijie recovered,” he said in a softer tone, sounding more like the boy Wei Wuxian had studied with in Gusu. “And that Jin Zixuan too is… well, he’s alive, right? Don’t they even have a son?”

“They’re both doing as well as they can, no thanks to you.”

Again, Nie Huaisang looked wounded by the accusation. Wei Wuxian remembered how his old friend had been after the reveal of his true nature, the way he’d desperately tried to hide what he was, the terror he’d expressed in every letter they had exchanged… Still, what had been done couldn’t be changed, and Wei Wuxian hadn’t survived this long by trusting just anyone.

If anything, it was Nie Huaisang’s example who had taught him to be wary.

“Wei-xiong, you remember when we were in the Cloud Recesses together, and we made realgar wine a little before you were kicked out?” Nie Huaisang suddenly asked and though surprised by the change of topic, Wei Wuxian nodded. “All the other Nie disciples with us were quite stunned,” Nie Huaisang reminisced with a sad smile. “They’d never seen me drunk before. It’s a skill I’ve always had, though nobody at home really knew why. I can eat anything, drink anything, and never get sick… anything but realgar, which affects me badly, I’ve found since.”

Without thinking, Wei Wuxian nodded again. Realgar was used to ward off evil, and it was said to have a particularly strong effect on demons. That particular time, Nie Huaisang had only had one small sip because he’d found the smell of realgar wine unpleasant, and just that single sip had made him violently sick, and so irritable he'd bitten Jiang Cheng who'd only wanted to check on him… though of course most people would be in a bad mood after vomiting that much. At the time, none of them had thought there was anything odd with that.

Yet if he’d had more wine than that, Nie Huaisang might have died, or attacked his friends.

“It wasn’t the time of year for realgar wine,” Wei Wuxian noted, feeling himself grow more curious than angry. “So find a better excuse.”

“It wasn’t the season for it, and I didn’t notice the difference in smell,” Nie Huaisang agreed. “But the person who helped me recover from my wounds assured me that my blood was tainted by realgar, and I’ve learned since that there are ways to cover the taste, or to increase the effect. And Jin Zixun was ever so insistent on making me drink that day. Funny, when we’d never been close. Or indeed when I had been promised that he wouldn’t be there, since I didn’t much care for him.”

It was something that had always puzzled them indeed. Not just Wei Wuxian, but Lan Wangji too, and even Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli when they’d had a chance to speak about that. As far as everyone had known, Jin Zixun had been in hiding at that time, terrified that Wei Wuxian might try to kill him for what he’d done to Wen Ning and his family. And Jin Zixun had been quite vocal regarding what he thought should be done to Nie Huaisang, too.

Odd that he’d come to a Night Hunt where were present not only Wei Wuxian’s beloved shijie, but also the terrifying demon that terrorized everyone.

It sounded a lot braver than Jin Zixun had ever been known to be.

“It’s easy to blame a dead man,” Wei Wuxian remarked.

“And it’s easy to blame a demon,” Nie Huaisang retorted. “Especially for someone who’d have the demon’s trust. Funny also how this incident ensured that Qinghe Nie became isolated and despised, just when it was considered the one sect which might have stood against Lanling Jin’s ambitions.”

Wei Wuxian shrugged. He’d personally also profited quite a bit from this conflict between the Nies and the Jins.

It had distracted everyone from what he was doing in Yiling. By the time the Jins had emerged fully victorious from that political battle, Wei Wuxian’s presence in the Burial Mound had been secure, while the Jins had been too busy securing their new power to think of attacking him. Besides, with him no longer part of Yunmeng Jiang and thus not involved in politics, and with his actions having made it clear that he wasn’t a threat, everyone had found it easier to leave him alone. Sometimes someone would still wonder if he should be annihilated, but a few words from Lan Xichen or Jiang Cheng seemed to usually be enough to put an end to that, at least for now.

Everyone might start thinking differently if he associated with a demon though.

“Supposing I believe you,” Wei Wuxian said, and he was ready enough to believe Nie Huaisang, demon or not. “I’m not sure what I can do for you.”

“Don’t think of it as you doing something for me, Wei-xiong. Think of it as the two of us teaming up to protect our families. You see, demons gossip just as much as mortals do, and I’ve been hearing a few worrying things while living with them. There’s a reason I know your shijie has a son, you see.”

Wei Wuxian shivered, but before he could ask for details, Wen Ning and Lan Wangji arrived at last. They were both stunned to see Nie Huaisang, though Lan Wangji had to be the more shocked of the two, since he would actually recognise the young man, while Wen Ning had never met him before.

Smiling faintly, Nie Huaisang bowed elegantly to the two newcomers, as if this were but an ordinary meeting between old friends.

“Lan gongzi, I did not expect you had really come to live here!” Nie Huaisang exclaimed with something like real joy. “I suppose gossip these days carries more truth than I’d have expected.”

“Fine, I’ll bite,” Wei Wuxian said. “What have you heard about my shijie and her son?”

“Let me come in,” Nie Huaisang replied. “And then we can talk.”

It felt like a trap, and maybe it was one.

Even after having disappeared for years, Nie Huaisang knew Wei Wuxian’s weaknesses. It had been a mistake perhaps to write to him back then, to confide in him, to stay his friend when the rest of the world shunned him… but Wei Wuxian too had needed a friend after the Sunshot Campaign, and Nie Huaisang had never judged him for what he’d done, not even before his demon blood was revealed.

This was a mistake.

And yet, Wei Wuxian opened the gate.

#nie huaisang #wei wuxian #demon nhs #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #jau writes #I am procrastinating on so much shit lol #so y'all get this

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lilnasxvevo · 2 years

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I’ve been playing with a modern AU for a few days where Wei Wuxian just. Goes off somewhere. For reasons I haven’t quite figured out yet. But one day he leaves a note that says, like, “I’m alive but I gotta go, please don’t look for me”

And then after several years (NOT sixteen though holy shit) he comes back, maybe because he needs help, maybe because whatever problem made him leave has been fixed, maybe he misses everyone too much, maybe someone died and he decided to come back for the funeral, idk.

And I only have snippets from there with varying levels of angst and comedy, such as:

-Jiang Cheng being the first person to see him and putting him in something that is more a wrestling hold than a hug because YOU’RE NOT GETTING AWAY FROM ME THIS TIME! WHERE THE FUCK WERE YOU, ASSHOLE?

-Just a snippet where Wei Wuxian drives them somewhere and parks badly and Jiang Cheng snorts and says “God, you still park like an asshole,” and Wei Wuxian’s heart CLENCHES because he knows that’s one of Jiang Cheng’s weird ways of saying “I still remember everything I’ve ever learned about you, and that’s because I love you”

-Jiang Cheng assuming that Wei Wuxian hasn’t been COMPLETELY off the grid and has been keeping tabs on them somehow when this was not actually possible for Wei Wuxian to do, so after their unexpected (for Jiang Cheng) public reunion he says “Do you want to come back home with me? He’ll be glad to see you, to be able to confirm for himself that you’re—that you’re all right.” “He who?” “My…husband…?” “YOU GOT MARRIED? YOU LIKE MEN? YOU GOT MARRIED TO SOMEONE I KNOW???” and Jiang Cheng has to tell Wei Wuxian in public that he fell in love with and married Nie Huaisang while Wei Wuxian was gone and Wei Wuxian SCREAMS in public because Nie Huaisang has had a crush on Jiang Cheng since they were like 17 and GOOD FOR HIM!!! GOOD FOR HIM

-Jiang Cheng gets Wei Wuxian back to his apartment and covertly texts Jiang Yanli and she shows up and she and Wei Wuxian cry on each other for a VERY long time and she says “Don’t you EVER do that again” like 300000 times

-By the time it occurs to Nie Huaisang that someone really ought to text Lan Wangji (he doesn’t know if Wei Wuxian wants to see him or not, but he doesn’t care—Lan Wangji deserves to Know) it’s late enough at night that Nie Huaisang knows Lan Wangji will have turned his phone off and gone to bed, but he texts him anyway. Wei Wuxian sleeps there that night on their couch and at 5:20 in the morning is awoken by Lan Wangji POUNDING on the door. They stare at each other for a long moment because that’s who they are as people, then Wei Wuxian swallows and says, “I’m sorry,” and then Lan Wangji is giving him a borderline bone-crushing hug and he rejects the apology with a “No” and then just says “You’re back. You’re back, you’re back. You’re here,” and Wei Wuxian genuinely might be in danger of dehydration from the sheer amount of tears he has cried in the last 18 hours

#so yeah. I need a fucking plot etc to tie together all these maudlin moments

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rosethornewrites · 2 years

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Monday & Tuesday T & G reading

The usual

Finished

Teen:

Wei Wuxian’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good First Meeting With His Future, by Enigmatree

Wei Wuxian is expecting to have a nice day learning from Lan Qiren and bugging Lan Wangji and Jiang Cheng in the Cloud Recesses.

He's not expecting to see a portal open and drop out a fake Lan Wangji carrying a madman demonic cultivator that the fake Lan Wangji calls Wei Ying.

Too bad that's what he gets.

imagine me and you, by jalpari

Single dad Wei Ying brings the apple of his eye, A-Yuan, to the shelter to adopt a bunny. Little did he know, he would find much more than a pet rabbit.

Of complaints and silver bells, by afincf_tirwer

When Jiang Cheng receives hundreds of complaints about the Yiling Patriarch and the fact that he doesn't belong in the Lan Sect, what else should he do but send an invitation for Wei Wuxian to re-join the Jiang sect with his husband.

When Wei Wuxian is invited to re-join the Jiang sect, surely he can be forgiven for neglecting to explain the significance behind the silver bells they received, after all, he's so happy he can't stop crying.

When Lan Zhan receives a silver bell in the post, surely he can be forgiven for not remembering all his lessons on the customs of the other sects, after all, surely it can't be that important.

Truth, Like an Arrow, by Nahiel

Wen Ning understands that somehow he got a second chance, but he doesn’t understand why. If anyone should get a second chance, shouldn’t it be someone who actually has an ability to make a difference?

Still, since he’s here in the past, he’s going to do his best.

Travel Back Down That Road, by iSwallowMy_converse (3 chapters)

Some random psycho who apparently is his self from the future just smacked his head and told him that he was the biggest embarassment in his two lifetimes. Now how exactly is he supposed to respond to that.

The Cottage Amongst the Gentians, by Enigmatree

Wei Wuxian manages to send himself and Lan Wangji back in time from after the Siege on the Burial Mounds, and Lan Wangji wakes up in a world where he doesn't (yet) have a son, isn't in forced seclusion, and the Yiling Patriarch is still alive.

It's a day for miracles, apparently.

this is our vow (oneshot version), by orro

Waking up in Gusu isn’t a surprise but waking up as a teenager is enough to make Wei Wuxian scream, disrupting the precious silence of the Cloud Recesses.

Wei Wuxian had been given a second chance when he was brought back to life. But this time, he can truly fix everything, and if he can’t find a way back then at least he can make some things right that he could never atone enough for.

You Need Tending, by Eleanor_Fenyx (3 chapters)

“It’s alright, young master, the dogs are gone I promise. Can you sit up? We can help you feel better. Do we need to find your parents?”

“Xichen,” Uncle says, voice uncharacteristically quiet. “Take Wangji back to Lotus Pier. I’ll take care of the boy.”

Part of Lan Zhan wants to protest, but most of him just wants to go somewhere quiet so he can calm down. He lets Brother take his hand to lead him away from the sight of Uncle kneeling to tend to the boy's injuries. They turn a corner and then the scene is gone and he faces forward again, his mind racing.

“What’s your name?” the man asks and Wei Ying blinks up at him, surprised that he wants to know.

“A-Ying,” he replies with a tremble in his voice and the man nods.

“A-Ying. I am Master Lan. Where are your parents? You are hurt and you need tending.”

Wei Ying sniffles again and ducks his head to scrub at more tears.

“They’ll be back soon,” he replies, like he always does when someone asks. It was the last thing Mother had said to him before she and Father had left on their night hunt, and though he isn’t entirely sure how long ago that was now he still trusts her promise.

It's Not That Simple, by Eleanor_Fenyx

13 years after Wei Wuxian's death, Jiang Cheng gets caught in a demonic cultivation array that throws him back to the night before it all began - the night before Wei Ying was found and brought to Lotus Pier to live.

How much can one man change about the future, and can he set his anger aside long enough to do what needs to be done?

Holding shreds, by barisan

An accident on a practical lecture has the Lan realising the state of Wei Wuxian's body.

Or, the angsty body swap AU my soul needed.

Kill The Dog, by SauerstoffBrauchtManZumAtmen23 (2nd in a series)

Wei Wuxian and his two sons get attacked by a dog. Lan Wangji is worried.

And that's it.

The Lives of Lan Wangji, by azurewaxwing

“Be gone!” the pile of rags yelled, leaping up. “All those who disturb the sleep of the Yiling Laozu shall face the wrath of the Burial Mounds! The Blood Pool will boil over and scald the flesh from your bones! Fierce corpses will tear you limb from limb!”

Lan Wangji startled back, coming up hard against the cave wall. The rags, seeing that he was moving towards the entrance, began waving apologetically.

“Aiya, no, don’t go!” The frayed blankets dropped to reveal a boy around Lan Wangji’s age. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I thought you were one of the Wen brothers. The Blood Pool won’t really do any of that, I promise.”

“Who … who are you?” Lan Wangji managed.

“I’m the Yiling Laozu, of course,” said the boy, with a shrug. “Who else would I be?”

General:

Over the Mountain and Through the Woods, by mondengel

Qingheng-Jun gets a visitor.

針沒有兩頭利 - A Needle Has No Two Ends, by Kuraiikel

Lán Qǐrén has been given a task,

A task to have the Yílíng Lǎozǔ leave Cloud Recesses,

For good.

But how can he,

When there is no Yílíng Lǎozǔ in Cloud Recesses,

Just a young man who wants to live in peace.

Lifeline, by WithBroomBefore (2nd in a series, 2 chapters)

She needs to go home. Whatever happens at the Nightless City, she must believe that it is not too late for Wei Wuxian. Jiang Cheng will find a way to bring him back, and the three of them will be together, and they will take care of each other as they always have.

my love is like ice, and I to fire, by stiltonbasket

“If you don’t care about having a wife, he’s an ideal candidate to play the role,” Huaisang said, when they were going through the neighborhood list of single young people within a few years of Nie Mingjue’s age. “With his family issues, he won’t say no to the cash offer.”

Nie Mingjue had kept Lan Xichen’s name in mind—it stood out, what with the man’s good looks and family obligations.

But in all honesty, he had his heart set on Xichen, right from the very beginning.

hands full of sand (but they fall right through), by qvystkm

Wei Wuxian thinks he's finally had his happy ending, but like everything, things don't go his way.

---

Or; Wei ying dies and gets thrown into a time loop.

one of our own, by glitteringmoonlight

Times change, but some people remain the same.

The Lans are nothing, if not aware of this.

For one of their own, they will stand against the world.

Or, 5 times the Lans defended Wei Wuxian, and the 1 time he was there to see it happen.

Unfinished

Teen:

Debts to be repaid, by marhikit

“The cultivation world had turned its back on you, Wei-xiong, Hanguang-Jun had to leave because the lonely path is something he cannot join you in. I admit I am a coward who does not want to be ostracised more than I already am, your brother had abandoned you, even your precious Shijie left you to marry—”

“I get it, Huaisang!” It hurt to hear all this coming from his best friend, it hurt having to confront these truths and betrayals.

“What do you want me to do?” Wei Wuxian asked. “Your supplies could only last us for so long, and what then?”

“Which is why I’ll distract everyone for you. I’ll start a fire big enough to burn the whole place, make everyone think you burned yourself to the ground. I’ll erase your existence so long as you escape.”

“Why are you doing this, Nie-xiong? If they learn you helped me escape, you’ll be tried for treason!”

“I can’t be useless forever,” Nie Huaisang said, “not when my best friend could die the moment you take a step towards Lanling.”

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NHS helps WWX escape from the Burial Mounds with the Dafan Wens, this leads to WWX ending up as the advisor of a datu eight years down the line.

Grand Master of Rogue Cultivation, by waterphoenix21

A Wei Wuxian raises A-Yuan fic!

After Wen Qing and the remaining Wen Clan are accused of Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli's mysterious deaths, Wei Wuxian speaks in their defense. This naturally leads to a rift between him and Jiang Cheng.

Then one night, the last surviving member of the Wen Clan is found asleep on top of Jiang Yanli's grave. Nobody knows how or why. But feeling as if he no longer belongs to any clan, Wei Wuxian decides to raise little Wen Yuan on his own, as he sets on a path to becoming a rogue cultivator, following in his mother's footsteps and seeking to find the mystical mountain of the legendary immortal, Baoshan Sanren.

今日复今日 - Today after Today, by ThisIsWhereTheMagicHappens

Wei Wuxian opens his eyes.

He’s at least two steps closer to his husband, who is still sitting in the cold spring with his back to him. With an unmarred, all smooth back. The night has changed to day. The snow is nowhere to be seen, the bamboo forest sways lightly in the hot breeze.

Chenqing presses against the skin on his palm from how hard he is clenching his flute. Not daring to move in case he had run into an illusion in the middle of the Cloud Recesses - as impossible as it should be - he reaches out his spiritual powers to scan the area.

In the next second he’s on his knees on the uneven forest floor, his shout dispersing between the bamboo. His hands shake where he has wrapped them over his lower abdomen, his eyes have closed on their own, just like a few breaths earlier. His heart hammers too fast, too hard in his ears.

Or:

Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji timetravel back to the day after their first drinking night in the Cloud Recesses. No one knows why.

Once Again for Love., by chesschoco

In their first lives, they were greatly suppressed.

Pressure coming from both outside and inside sources, having a will but no power to make a way, being pitted against the small amount of family they each have left, having to abide by politics, wanting to help but not being able too...

Then, they’re all gifted with a second life.

In this life, they have a chance. Anything that could go wrong, can be prevented. They can proudly stand and fight. They can stick by those they love. They can use the newfound power they have to help those they call their own. They can get the comfort that they themselves all so desperately need...

And they will not let the opportunity go to waste.

(Or, Sunshot Generation get reincarnated as their predecessors.)

After All I Drifted Ashore, by lingering_song

"And how do we even know if this Grandmaster would help us?"

The thing is, Nie Huaisang really doesn't know. The Wei-Xiong he knew had been kind and ever-willing to aid whoever was in need, but Wei-Xiong had been vilified and cornered by the world after he had ceased to be of use. Had been ambushed on his way to meet his supposed family, left with no one and nothing until the only way out was to remove himself from the land. Wei-Xiong doesn't owe any of them his aid, doesn't owe them anything at all.

"We don't know," he says as much, "But at this point, do we still have the luxury of choice?"

After the Yiling Patriarch surrendered the Stygian Tiger Seal, Lanling Jin rules the entirety of the Cultivation World as Wen Ruohan once sought to do. What is left of the Sects try to fight back by seeking the help of a powerful Grandmaster across the sea.

Relentless, by nirejseki

“Why are we even here?” Wen Xu groused.

“Yeah! That’s right! Why are we here?” Wen Chao immediately chimed, very obviously taking his cues from his elder brother – much to the latter’s irritation, judging by his immediate scowl.

Lan Qiren knew that he needed to pick his next words very carefully. With recalcitrant students, a teacher only had a few opportunities to really connect with them. If he allowed them to dismiss him or categorize him as an enemy at this early stage, it would be an incredibly uphill battle to gain enough respect in order to teach them anything, and in this case, given the strength of their background and the fact that this little teaching session was both likely to be short and definitely completely unauthorized, it would quite possibly make it completely impossible to ever get through to them.

“You are here,” Lan Qiren said solemnly, each word slow and thoughtful, “because your father is an ass.”

(a story of kidnapping and falling in love, reluctantly)

Back To Before, by raccoon___bitch

Wei Wuxian is back, and he’s going to make it everyone’s problem.

Alternatively:

Wei Wuxian gets his old body back. His goal now is to see how many old cultivators he can give heart attacks to.

General:

Bus Stop, by AwkwardJello

The boy has no umbrella, only a soggy textbook to protect him from the rain mercilessly pounding down on him. His footsteps make disgusting squelching noises as he hurriedly ducks under the bus stop canopy, but not without splashing Lan Wangji’s carefully polished shoes with his final step.

The boy catches Lan Wangji’s eye and grins, not a single trace of discomfort nor regard for his disheveled appearance. “Oh, hey there! You catching the bus too?”

Lan Wangji meets a boy while waiting for his bus (aka the bus stop fic no one asked for).

Lotus Remix, by TheAdelaideParade

As if Wei Wuxian didn't have enough problems when he came back from the dead, now he has to figure out just what is going on with Lan Zhan to make him go into seclusion. It looks like he'll have to tag along on this mystery if he wants to figure anything out. And just who is that Jiang disciple who keeps popping up everywhere?

Or, a canon AU in which someone else saved Wen Yuan before Lan Wangji could get to him.

#the untamed #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #chen qing ling #untamed fanfiction

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Nie Huaisang having fainted in the Nightless city, he is left behind when the escape happens. As punishment for the group, and to make up for the shame, Wen Chao tosses his in the Burial Mounds. Who could have known the usueless Nie second master had such an incredible talent at resentment, and how to wield it? (Yilling Patriarch! Nie huaisang)

Wei Wuxian’s back hurt from the fall.

In fairness, many things hurt from the fall – arms, legs, ass, head – but his back especially.

He sat up, rubbing the place in question, thinking that it was a good thing that he hadn’t broken any bones because he didn’t have a golden core to help heal him, and looked around his new…imminent gravesite. The Burial Mounds wasn’t a place that people left, as a general matter, and he could feel the roiling pulse of resentful energy all around him, threatening to sink under his skin, and without a golden core – well. He’d just have to be extra clever to come up with a way out.

He couldn’t leave Jiang Cheng alone, after all. Jiang Cheng, and Jiang Yanli; they’d be heartbroken if he didn’t come back. He didn’t want them to end up like – well. He just didn’t want them to be upset.

And there was always the matter of getting revenge…

He was just walking around when he saw a sudden burst of movement – a hand shooting out from the misty forest – and he reacted accordingly. Wei Wuxian would like to say that “reacted accordingly” meant that he leapt back in a mature and graceful manner befit of an experienced cultivator, already calculating his next step to fight off whatever horrific creature lingered in the darkness, but actually he jumped straight up into the air and shrieked like a small girl encountering her first ghost.

“Wei-xiong?” the apparition rasped.

Wei Wuxian was holding up his fists, which wasn’t actually going to help him at all – no golden core – but then he realized he’d just been addressed by name, and rather intimately, too. “…do I know you?” he asked, squinting, and the vague silhouette took a step forward into the limited light of the moon.

It was –

“Fuck,” Wei Wuxian blurted out. “Nie Huaisang?! You’re Nie Huaisang!”

Nie Huaisang blinked at him. His skin was bleached pale, dark circles smeared under his eyes; he was too skinny and his clothing was in tatters. There was definitely a possibility that he was a ghost.

“Wei-xiong,” he said again, voice hoarse, and swallowed as if trying to moisten it. “What are you doing here?”

“I got kick-dropped here by Wen Chao,” Wei Wuxian said. “What are you doing here? The Wen clan said they executed you after we all escaped! Your brother –”

He stopped.

To say that Nie Mingjue had not reacted well was an understatement.

It was getting to the point that people weren’t saying his name, weren’t even thinking it in connection with loss, less they be tainted with the same pain and madness. And all the while, he insisted that somewhere, somehow, Nie Huaisang was still alive…

They’d all thought he was simply deranged with grief, but apparently, unexpectedly, he was right.

“Wen Chao dropped me here as well,” Nie Huaisang said. “I’ve been scavenging, mostly. There’s some wild potatoes, birds…I’m not strong enough to get out.”

That didn’t sound good.

“How did you survive?” Wei Wuxian asked. “I thought…and Wen Chao definitely thought…there’s so much resentful energy!”

“Oh, that.”

“Yes, that. What did you do?” He reached out and took Nie Huaisang’s hands in his, checking his pulse. There was one, which was good, even if it was sluggish. At least he wasn’t actually a ghost.

Nie Huaisang swayed a little as he stood there.

“Wei-xiong,” he said slowly. “Do you remember back when we were at the Cloud Recesses during one of Teacher Lan’s lectures, and you had that idea about using resentful energy?”

“The time I got kicked out? Sure, I remember it. What about it?”

“You said that resentful energy was energy, too,” Nie Huaisang said. “That it could be used just the same…you were right.”

Wei Wuxian stared at him, then looked around him. “But you cultivate swordsmanship!” To the extent he’d thought about cultivating with resentful energy, he’d thought maybe music, or talismans, or something else to manipulate the energy without actually allowing it to dominate him; he’d dismissed the idea of using orthodox cultivation methods as implausible – or, worse, having been tried and ending up with grotesque results. “How can you wield resentful energy like a sword?”

“Saber.”

“What?”

“I don’t cultivate the sword,” Nie Huaisang said. “I’m Nie. We cultivate the saber.”

“Saber, sword, it’s the same, isn’t it?” Wei Wuxian said impatiently. “One has one side, the other has two, but fundamentally we’re all doing the same thing.”

“No, we’re not,” Nie Huaisang said. “My family’s cultivation…it’s complicated.” He shook his head. “It doesn’t matter. What matters is, you’re here now. You can help me.”

“Help you?” Wei Wuxian felt a pain in his belly, right where his golden core had been. “I’m not sure I can. There’s – something you don’t know about, with me. I can’t do what I did before.”

“You’re here now,” Nie Huaisang said again. “We’ll figure it out together.”

Now it was his turn to reach out to grab Wei Wuxian’s arms, his too-thin fingers wrapping around Wei Wuxian’s wrists like he really was the skeletal apparition he’d originally taken him for.

“I have to get out of here, Wei-xiong,” he said, and if his voice was kind then the aura around him was not – and maybe it was the lack of golden core that had slowed Wei Wuxian down, made him not sense it at first, but the aura around him was terrifying, the congealed sludge of grudge and misery of the Burial Mounds in concentrated form, as if this land were his domain and Nie Huaisang its implausible master. “I have to go back to find my brother. He’s worried about me, I’m sure. I have to go back.”

“Okay,” Wei Wuxian said, chilled to the bone. He’d figure something out – there were burial goods all over the Burial Mounds; surely some old lost soul had dropped a dizi somewhere he could use, and he could try out all those ideas about using resentful energy through music, through talismans, through whatever means that wasn’t whatever Nie Huaisang had done that had made him master of the Burial Mounds, bound to it body and soul. “Okay, I’ll help. We’ll get out. I promise.”

“Good,” Nie Huaisang said. “Good.”

#mdzs #wei wuxian #nie huaisang #my fic #my fics #courgette96

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